Chapter 280
"I let her go? Who will let us go?! Is your father's life going to end? Is your sister's life going to end? Don't forget how your grandmother died. She was angered to death by those people. She looks pitiful now, but who knows if she is in cahoots with the kidnappers?"
The woman gritted her teeth and whispered,
"Besides, even if she's not, we can't let her go if we want to raise the ransom. If we don't have the money... we can just sell her off."
When they have no other choice, good people will become bad people.
The woman did not lie. Everything she told Shen Jiao was true, but she concealed some of it.
When the villagers saw that paying the ransom would not bring the person back and would also cost the remaining people their lives, they gave up the idea of saving the person.
But those people still refused to let them go and continued to ask for money, but no one was willing to give it to them.
At this time someone received a portion from the family.
The old lady of the Qian family, Qian Goudan's grandmother, could not accept the situation when she saw the heads of her old man and youngest son. She was so sad and angry that she died.
Those people pretended to be reasonable and sent a message saying that they knew they were afraid, so they didn't need to go. They just needed to prepare the money and they would send someone to pick it up.
The time given is also very sufficient, one month, one life is worth fifty taels.
The two people from the Qian family need one hundred taels.
The family scraped together the money and returned with a letter written in blood to report their safety.
Before I could even breathe a sigh of relief, those people started to extort money again.
One life costs one hundred taels per month.
The two people from the Qian family each need two hundred taels.
If they don't hand it over, they can only wait for the body to be collected, and it's not a complete body. If they want to hand it over, they can't afford it at all. Many people have given up, but the Qian family is the only one who is unwilling to give up. They still want to grit their teeth and get together, find some more people, and follow secretly. If they are lucky, maybe they can rescue the person this time, so it won't be a pity to spend any money.
The problem was that the family begged everyone for help, borrowed everything they could, and sold everything they could, but they were still short of dozens of taels of silver.
I was just about to sell the land when Shen Jiao bumped into me.
The woman made up her mind and decided to go all out: "Her horse is worth some money, and so are the two swords. If it's not enough, we can think of another way. If it's not much, there's no need to sell the land."
If they hadn't had this idea, how could they bear to kill the chicken? It would be a guilty conscience. They thought that even if they wanted to harm someone, they had to let the person die of a full stomach.
My sister-in-law said, "Sister-in-law, what if she knows martial arts? She kicked the door with great force and looked like she was not someone to be trifled with."
"It's okay. I gave her a lot of medicine and she ate a lot, enough for her to sleep."
That packet of knockout drug was originally bought to deal with kidnappers, but unexpectedly, it was used here.
Shen Jiao:?
What knockout drug? Who told them it was knockout drug? Shen Jiao ate it, and it was clearly soybean powder and incense ash, not even croton.
The chicken was wasted. If she wasn't so hungry and greedy, she wouldn't have eaten it.
They actually took it as a knockout drug?
Even if it's true, it's useless. Shen Jiao has a black rope of live amber given by her master around her neck, so she is not afraid of poison. Besides, she is a drug slave, so how can she be easily drugged?
"We have to be careful though. Let's get some weapons before we go in."
"Okay, I'll listen to you, Donkey Egg and Horse Egg. Just keep an eye on her. If she tries to run away, make sure to hold her down."
"Don't worry, aunt." The two teenagers responded.
He is really "careful". He dares to talk so much through a wooden door and a thin wall. Does he think she is fast asleep?
Shen Jiao sat in the dark, thinking that she should give them a surprise, otherwise it would be unfair to their efforts.
So he decisively climbed onto the beam.
Waiting for the people to rush over, she jumped down, kicked the two women down, and punched each of the three children. In no time, she tied them all up, gagged them and hung them from the beams. She even brought the little girl who was still in her cradle, put her in a basket and hung her up. Since there was not enough rope, a belt would do.
Shen Jiao had a good sleep. The next day, she looked at the five angry and frightened eyes and listened to the little girl's crying.
Shen Jiao poked Qian Goudan with his sword and said, "Your grandmother was right. You flirted with me first, and you deserved to be beaten to death. Why don't you learn this lesson? You had the heart to kill a poor, helpless woman like me, and you were so cruel as to sell me and my horse. How can you do this? What's the difference between you and those kidnappers?"
Seeing that the woman seemed to have something to say, Shen Jiao kindly helped remove the cloth from her mouth: "What do you want to say?"
"If the kidnappers can do it, why can't we? You feel sorry for yourself, but don't we feel sorry for ourselves?" She roared with bloodshot eyes.
Shen Jiao scratched his ear and said calmly, "It's pitiful, but what does that have to do with me? If I don't do this, you are the victims. I would be embarrassed even if I wanted to beat you up to vent my anger. But now that you are like this, I can do anything. Of course you can hurt people. Unfortunately, you are unlucky and kicked against the iron wall."
"This is the first time..." she cried.
"That's so unlucky." Shen Jiao stuffed the cloth back into her mouth, rummaged through the drawers in front of them, and stuffed the money they had worked so hard to collect into her bag, not even leaving out the dozen or so cents she had given her yesterday.
I made another meal and ate it slowly.
There was really nothing interesting in this house. Shen Jiao dug almost three feet into the ground but only found seven or eight eggs.
They hid these little things in the cellar behind the firewood pile.
It was covered with dirt and thatch, and piled with firewood. It was impossible to find it unless you looked carefully. If Shen Jiao hadn't seen them crawling out from in here with her own eyes yesterday, she probably wouldn't have noticed it.
This looks like it was newly dug, probably to prevent kidnappers.
I'm afraid they'll be so rampant that they'll break into the house and rob people.
The area underneath is quite large, as if they wanted to dig a tunnel.
These few people can really make a fuss.
Shen Jiao unceremoniously baked himself a lot of pancakes, filling them with food while saying, "Originally, I was thinking of being nice to people. Maybe it makes sense, it's right, but when I saw you, I knew it wasn't necessary. If I let you go, who would let me go?"
Shen Jiao put on his bag and thought for a moment while holding his sword: "You are lucky. If it were half a month ago, I would have killed you. At least I would have tied you up and thrown you out to be picked up by those kidnappers. But now, forget it.
This money can be considered as buying your lives. If you want to harm others in the future, be careful. I can kick down the door with one foot, and I can also kick you to death with one foot. Is this something so difficult to imagine? "
Shen Jiao drew his sword and swung it. A flash of cold light passed by, and Qian Goudan fell to the ground with a thud. Shen Jiao grabbed a bowl and smashed it next to him: "Pick up the porcelain pieces and slowly cut the rope. When they can come down, it depends on when you can save yourself."
Shen Jiao thought for a moment, put down the ten taels of silver, pinched Qian Goudan's face and said, "This is also for food and lodging. Keep it safe."
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